Well, only 24% of people actually know what the Cap and Trade bill is even about, so I question the validity of these polls.

I think most Americans can agree that we need more renewables and less pollution, but most would disagree with the Cap and Tax bill becuase it accomplishes nothing except for raising energy prices.

10:40 am August 28, 2009

Richard wrote :

Obviously, most Americans are unaware that the current legislation will drive their energy costs skyward, while enriching a very few individuals who are now busily blueprinting the policy, regulatory and bureaucratic infrastructure for yet another massive government intrusion into the private sector. If this legislation as currently written sees the light of day, Al Gore, among others, will become a billionaire within five years even as the country's dependence on foreign energy continues to grow. This is not cap and trade, it is cap and rape, with a license to steal granted to a few well-connected operators.

11:43 am August 28, 2009

Horatio Hornblowner wrote :

He appears to have a wedgie.

1:45 pm August 28, 2009

Kit P wrote :

What policy?

The only energy policy that I know of is the NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY, May 2001. This policy was available on the internet. The community organizer from Chicago is not aware that communication is important part of getting things done.

It is not that I think O has a secret plan. O has no plan other than to make his base think that he is doing something. There is an amazing lack critical thinking. What is the plan and how would it achieve the desired results?

" In other words, the cost of a suitcase of Budweiser could make or break the country’s most ambitious environmental program."

Not everyone pruchases a suitcase of Budweiser every month, ever think of that?

6:51 pm August 29, 2009

Resourceguy wrote :

You really have to hand it to the Beltway crowd. They deserve the Nobel Prize for crafting a plan that leaves out the words energy tax and shifts the tax to businesses who will the the bad guys in raising retail energy prices. Well actually they probably found many examples of this sleight of hand in the policy encyclopedia but the sales job and poll support is impressive for its deception results. The compromise bill shifting the implementation out in the future with a steep cost curve is equally impressive for its irresponsibility. That will overlay it on top of all the other debt costs and deferred social program costs. Its crystalline in its bad policy design. Jimmy Carter must be jealous. Oh yea Edward Markey helped design that one too. His progeny can admit they made some mistakes in another 20 years.

9:23 am August 30, 2009

The Author wrote :

Obama's energy plan has proven to be a watered down 'hands-off' approach that has involved very little change at all. Just look at how weak the waxman-markey bill is or the fact that permits are still being issued for mountaintop removal for coal which is both highly inefficient at obtaining coal (only 8% of what's there is retrieved) and incredibly destructive to the immediate;y surrounding environment. It's pretty sad that places like China are actually beginning to make more far sweeping and effective overtures at addressing climate change and energy.

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